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110. Otidiphaps insularis Salvin & Godm. 



Hindueck blue-black withont a light patch. Underside dull purple, washed 

 with greenish across the chest. Back and wings cinnamon instead of purplish- 

 chestnut, lower back and rump dull green, changing into purjile towards the upper 

 tail coverts. 



Only known from Fergusson IsLiud. Mr. Albert S. Meek seut us one 

 specimen marked female^ with the " iris dark red, feet greeuish-yellow, bill dark 

 crimson." 



111. Caloenas nicobarica (L.). 



Of this emphatically insular pigeon we have at present forty specimens : — 

 S ad., ? ad., S juv. Car Xicobar (A. L. Butler coll.). 



2 Palawan (Dr. Platen coll.). 

 1 Luzon (Blarche coll.). 



? ad. Sibntu (A. Everett coll.). 



3 (?, 3 ? Pulo Tega, North Borneo (John Whitehead coll.). 

 1 Karamon Island, near Labuan (A. Everett coll.). 



¥ Toeal, Little Key (H. Kilhn coll.). 



? 8oa Island, near Little Key (H. Kiihu coll.). 



S Teniai, Taam Islands (H. Kiihn coll.). 



¥ Bisa, near Obi, Moluccas (W. Doherty coll.). 



$ ¥ Satonda, near Sumbawa (W. Doherty coll.). 



1 juv. Ansus, Jobi (from Bruiju's hunters).] 

 tj Ansus, Jobi (W. Doherty coll.). 



¥ Mafor (W. Doherty coll.). 



2 pull. Dutch New Guinea (native coll.). 

 ¥ Troliriand (A. S. Meek coll.). 



S Egum group (A. S. Meek coll). 



2 cJ , 1 ¥ St. Aignan, Louisiades (A. S. Meek coll.). 



1 t?, 2 ¥ Rossel Island, Louisiades (A. S. Meek coll.). 



3 New Hanover (Cai)t. C. Webster coll.). 



2 $ Fauro, Shortland Islands (Wahues & Ribbe coll.). 



"In all this series, from so many different localities, we are, in accordance with 

 all ornithologists, not able to discover any characters for the separation of different 

 local forms. 



The Caloenas pelewensis of the Catalogue of Birds we consider a subspecies of 

 nicobarica. 



The most peculiar Caloenas maculata—covTectly identified as a Caloenas by 

 Wagler— is certainly not the young of C. nicobarica, as the young are almost quite 

 like the adults, and not sj)otted. It is extraordinary that the home of this bird is 

 not yet discovered, and we suggest the possibility—although there were two 

 specimens — that it is an abnormity. This bird is well figured in the first volume 

 of the Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums, where the type is preserved. 



